The superfluous is very necessary.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

LouisFerdinand Celine

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Barbara Pletcher

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science

Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Jeffrey

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Antonin Artaud

Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd Wright

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

James Joyce

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

Robert Collier

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

Sigmund Freud

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mahatma Gandhi